Abstract :
Developers at Time Warner Cable´s Full Service Network in Orlando are quickly learning about the challenges of sending megabytes of video information across miles of fibre optic cables. Although the pilot project´s video- and shopping-on-demand are up and running, the software developers must now determine how to send different news-on-demand requests to 4,000 homes by the end of the year
Keywords :
cable television; interactive television; interactive video; multimedia communication; optical fibre networks; Full Service Network; fibre optic cables; large-scale interactive TV; news-on-demand requests; shopping-on-demand; video information; video-on-demand; Cable TV; Cities and towns; Costs; Hardware; Internet telephony; Large-scale systems; Optical fiber cables; Personal communication networks; Telecommunication computing; Wires;